SfAA 2021 Paper Abstracts ADAMS, James (UCI) The (Systems and) Scales of Energy Justice: On the Multi-dimensional Stakes of a Just Energy Transition. Though Austin, Texas has an impressive history of pairing city growth and development with a strong commitment to a renewable energy transition, this “green-growth” success story is also deeply entangled with the continued displacement and disparagement of the city’s black and brown communities. In this talk I will discuss more recent attempts by local environmental organizations and city planners to reckon with this legacy of structural racism as they factor in different systems and scales of analysis into a new, equity- centered approach to energy transition planning and practice. [email protected] (PR 23-1) AGAR, Juan J. (NOAA Fisheries), SHIVLANI, Manoj (U Miami), VALDES-PIZZINI, Manuel (U Puerto Rico), and MATOS- CARABALLO, Daniel (Fisheries Rsch Lab) Resilience in the Face of Adversity: The Impacts of Maria, the Tremors, and COVID-19 on Puerto Rican Fishers. Within the past three years, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico suffered several major natural disasters, including Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017), the earthquake swarm off the south coast (2019-2020), and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). These extreme events caused extensive disruption to the livelihoods of small-scale fishermen. Building on the findings of recent surveys, in-depth interviews, field observations, and netnography (digital ethnography using Facebook and Instagram, during the Lent period) we assess the socio-economic impacts of these events on the small-scale fishing communities. We also investigate how these fishing communities reacted and adapted to these unforeseen events. (25-5) AGUAYO, Natalia, VALENZUELA, Sandra, and LUENGO, Luis (U Concepción) Health Literacy, Self-Care, and Glycemic Control in Persons with Diabetes Mellitus. As a result of a quantitative, transversal and descriptive approach, we conducted an investigation in the city of Concepción, Chile, whose objective was to understand health literacy and self-care of individuals with diabetes mellitus, type 2. The participants were mostly adult senior women. We observed an appropriate health literacy, but low adherence to self-care practices. It is not known which factors affect decisions to adhere to self-care on the part of individuals. This complicates nursing care and it translates into an inadequate glycemic control, with consequences for health outcomes. [email protected] (26-15) AL AMIN, Saif (UNCG) Leveraging Social Media in Response to COVID-19 Challenges by the Montagnard Refugee Community. Social media has been one of the primary sources of health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the “stay-home” order, minority communities have been challenged by lack of access to technology. This further highlights the digital divide within communities. The Montagnard immigrant and refugee community in North Carolina had to culturally transition to social media platforms to address emergent COVID-19 challenges. In this presentation, we apply digital ethnographic methods and Schrieber’s social media communication framework to analyze how this community’s youth leveraged social media for mobilization and response during the pandemic. [email protected] (24-8) ALBERO, Kimberly (UVA Sch of Med) Biomedicine and the Local Cultural Contexts of Central Appalachia. Opioid use disorders account for a large proportion of premature death in the U.S (NSDUH, 2019). Many have prioritized the urgency of offering evidence- based treatments. While the complexity of “the opioid epidemic” is increasingly acknowledged, there is less attention to how treatment efforts must address diverse cultural and local needs (CHR, 2020). By drawing from the partnership between UVA and a rural free clinic in Wise, VA to launch an OBOT program, we explore the conflicts between biomedical approaches to substance use treatment in a local context (SAMHSA, 2019). Institutional structures of power pose an array of challenges and risks in planning and negotiation. (22-24) ALEKSEEVSKY, Mikhail (Ctr for Urban Anth-Moscow) Reinventing an Embassy: Applied Anthropology and Diplomatic Representation. An embassy provides a representation of its country to its host state. The spatial structure and architecture of embassy buildings often convey the idea of power. Usually, embassies are fenced off from the rest of the city by high fences and look like fortresses. However, the grooving in popularity soft power concept requires reinventing the approach. An embassy should portray a friendly image within the host state and become a place of attraction. The paper presents a case study of applied anthropological research that was conducted to develop a new socio-cultural model of an embassy of an Arab country in Moscow, Russia. [email protected] (PR 27-7) ALEXANDER, Sara, SCHULTZ, Alan F., and MARTENS, Paul (Baylor U) Worldviews, Value Systems, and Life’s Experiences Influence How Farmers Weather Climate Change in Western Belize. An important challenge for anthropologists studying climate change is to make explicit the roles of beliefs and values in the formation of cultural models that enable individuals to make sense of today’s complex environmental problems. The nature of farming practices in any location is influenced by mean climate state, economic and government regulations, but is also guided by how people see their world in light of their challenges. Maya, Amish, and Mennonite farming communities reveal vulnerabilities relative to subsidy entitlements, scale of production, and entrenched value systems and worldviews that may allow for adaptive coping strategies but also act to guard against embracing specific options. [email protected] (24-9) ALVAREZ, Roberto (UCSD) FLAMENCO: The Hidden Dimension of Jim Greenberg’s Political Economy. Jim Greenberg has compiled a vast list of scholarly, original, books and articles, much of which explore and develop political ecology and the neoliberal. In the article “Good Vibrations: Strings Attached” Dr. Greenberg explores the Political Ecology of the Guitar. This stems from 60 years of playing the guitar and intimacy with the guitar world. Here I attempt to convey the hidden dimension, not only of the guitar and its SfAA 2021 Paper Abstracts political ecology, but the deeper influence and expression that music and the guitar have had on Dr. Greenberg’s work. [email protected] (26-18) ANDREATTA, Susan (UNCG) Regenerative, Resistance, Resilience, and Reliance: Supporting a Local Agro-Food System. It shouldn’t take a pandemic or climate change to remind the public to support local farmers, local food establishments, and farmers markets. How do the four Rs link production, distribution and consumption together to support or undermine a local agro-food system? How do small, medium and large-scale producers fit into an agro-food system? This paper confronts eaters everywhere and highlights the vulnerabilities and opportunities in the system, when faced with extreme challenges, be they environmental, political or health related. [email protected] (PR 26-1) ANSORI, Sofyan (Northwestern U) Negotiating the Burning Future: Indigenous People, Infrastructure, and Fire Governance in Indonesia. Responding to the massive forest fires in 2015, the Indonesian state established the Peat Restoration Agency that aimed at mitigating the impacts of such environmental catastrophes. This agency constructs extensive fire infrastructure to mediate and regulate future interactions between people and nature. This paper calls attention to infrastructure and the ways it facilitates not only the exchange of environmental ideas but also manifests imagination and desire. By focusing on the way fire infrastructures are perceived and contested, this paper seeks to explain how the indigenous people orient themselves toward the future imagined by the state and its experts. [email protected] (24-20) ARAUJO, Mariana (UVA) Cultural Negotiations: Biomedical and Local Approaches in Creating Healing Landscapes. This paper reviews the literature on efforts between biomedical based health care programs and local rural, religiously based programs to establish health care programs. The literature identifies common elements in these efforts that determine the complex relationships of such programs. These elements include power dynamics, structural violence, otherness, relations based on transactions, governmentality, and resistance. This analysis will use the framework of wounded cities (Till, 2012) those that have been wounded by state or dominant socio- political practice and healing landscapes (Gesler, 1992) where environmental, individual, and societal factors come together to promote healing but are simultaneously symbolically constructed and negotiated. [email protected] (22-24) ARCINIEGA, Luzilda (Wayne State U) Bridging Racial Polarization at Work: Diversity, Empathy, and a Racial Emotional Capitalism. In September 2020, President Trump signed an executive order to curtail diversity training, suggesting that these programs are racist towards white people in the United States. In this paper, I draw on two years of ethnographic research among diversity professionals, which include management consultants and business professionals, to explore how and why they imagine their role as mitigators of racial and political polarization in the workplace. I argue that insofar as diversity professionals emphasize empathy across race to make the workplace